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A soluble polyimide (PI2080) was thermally and thermo-oxidatively degraded. Crosslinking was found to proceed under both conditions. Crosslinking densities of degraded samples were estimated before and after the gel point by gel permeation chromatography and by a new method using thermomechanical analysis. It was suggested by i.r. study that crosslinking occurs by recombination and addition to benzene rings of on-chain radicals formed in a chain reaction initiated by the cleavage of C 6 H4---CH2C 6 H 4 linkage. Crosslinking during thermal degradation is affected by the mobility of polymer chains and ceases when the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the crosslinked sample reaches the degrading temperature. On the other hand, in thermo-oxidative degradation crosslinking due to oxygen seems to proceed without large motion of polymer chains and it continues even after the T s of the degraded sample exceeds the degrading temperature. It was shown by the relation between T, and crosslinking density that the crosslinking structure depends on the degradation conditions, i.e. in vacuum or in air, and that thermo-oxidative degradation gives more restricted crosslinking than pure thermal d

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Author

Shin-ichi Kuroda; Itaru Mita

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0014-3057)

Published

1989

Language

EN

Field

Materials Science (Physical Sciences)